Jakarta Activation defines a set of standard services to: determine the MIME type of an arbitrary piece of data; encapsulate access to it; discover the operations available on it; and instantiate the appropriate bean to perform the operation(s).
The Release Review Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2020-02-19 with the following results.
| Representative | Representative for: | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Kenji Kazumura, Michael DeNicola | Fujitsu | 1 |
| Dan Bandera, Kevin Sutter | IBM | 1 |
| Bill Shannon, Ed Bratt | Oracle | 1 |
| Mark Wareham, Steve Millidge | Payara | 1 |
| Scott Stark, Mark Little | Red Hat | 1 |
| David Blevins, Cesar Hernandez | Tomitribe | 1 |
| Ivar Grimstad | EE4J PMC | 1 |
| Alex Theedom | Participant Members | |
| Werner Keil | Committer Members | 1 |
| Total | 8 |